After several of their ministers, it is now the turn of the EU heads of state or government to tackle the subject of the EU’s competitiveness on Thursday 9 February in Brussels. They had already addressed the subject in December, when they had asked the European Commission to propose ways of thinking about it, and had agreed to hold an extraordinary summit in February (see EUROPE B13085A2).
Almost two months later, the Commission has done its homework and presented a Communication on...